ACCESS RIGHTS FOR d/DEAF AND DISABLED PEOPLE

All parties have a responsibility to:
• Meet legal obligations related to the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• Follow the principles of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines ((WCAG)
• Identify and remove access barriers
Organisations have a responsibility to:
• Develop and implement a Disability Action Plan
• Plan and budget for accessibility
• Discuss access requirements and costs with creatives (where the person is comfortable doing so)
• Seek advice from d/Deaf and Disabled advisors when making their spaces and programs accessible
• Consult and collaborate with people with lived experience
• Include accessibility and disability awareness in training and inductions
• Give everyone the opportunity to identify their access requirements
• Discuss access in projects from planning to completion
• Implement equitable application processes, see Equitable Application Processes
• Pay d/Deaf or Disabled creatives commensurate with industry standards
• Separate artist fees from access costs
• Allow flexibility in processes, systems and deadlines
Artists have a responsibility to:
• Consider accessibility in the early stages of making work
• Contribute to the creation of accessible work when working with organisations
• Advocate for organisations to support access provisions
• Make their work accessible when presenting it independently and online
• Outline their access requirements and costs when working with organisations (where comfortable doing so)
• Separate their artist fee from access costs when preparing their budgets